Shane Gehlert used a combination of NASA models and digital animation to create I Need Some Space, a brief educational tour of the planets, moons, and spacecraft spinning through our solar system.

Researchers have created the first model to animate the life cycle of a solar flare, laying the groundwork for future models that could predict flares generated by solar weather.

BOULDER, Colo. — For the first time ever, scientists have captured the entire life cycle a solar flare. The new report by the National Center for Atmospheric Science (NCAR) in Boulder, includes a ...

A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical idea that Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Instead, he theorized ...

An animated map that shows where in the night sky more than 4,000 extrasolar planets are. Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida/SYSTEM Sounds (via YouTube) ...

Loving this fantastic introduction to our local star system, created by the folks at Kurzgesagt. It’s clear, clean, concise – and beautifully animated, to boot. The solar system – well known ...

Everyone knows that as mere Earth-dwellers, our home planet is but a pale blue dot when compared to other celestial bodies. Even our nearby planets quickly become magnitudes larger than ourselves, and ...

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation that shows our solar system's planets rotating in a single globe The globe shows slices of the best parts of each planet The animation ...

A web developer named Alex Giron has created a working model of the solar system using only web standards. It's fully animated – though Alex takes advantage of some new CSS 3 features (border-radius, ...